As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.