Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Writing is the supreme solace.

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.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.