"A reasonable naturalist then settles down to this life with a sort of animal satisfaction. As Chinese illiterate wome…"

"A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet."

"The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy."

"All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, f…"

"Human life can be lived like a poem."

"Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made …"

"I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. I hope I shall succeed. For things are not so simple as they som…"

"I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophisti…"

"To me personally, the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average…"

"He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet."