The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex

What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on

Man lives by imagination

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?