If we didn’t live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one’s self… Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.