I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.