“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”

“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”

“Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.”

“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

“We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”

“The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.”

“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”

“It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”

“It is better to seek spirituality than materialism.”

“....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotiaby the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was bes...”

“Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth.Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth.Brains bewildered by the whirl of thingscannot think truth.Hearts deadened by the weight of thi...”