Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.