I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.