Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.