"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."

"For what did Don Quixote fight ? For Dulcinea, for glory, for life, for survival. "

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play."

"Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world."

"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."

Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.

"No less remarkable than Balzac’s genius as a writer was his lack of aptitude for the role of society lion."

"In our day, it is difficult to imagine a world in which everybody, high and low, educated and uneducated, was preoccupied with comets,"

"America is a man-made world; moreover it is a world which man has made by means of machinery."

"The present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements: nothing happens but still there is instant publicity."

"Let us take a day in Balzac’s working life, a day typical of thousands."

"As Otto Rank remarked, the neurotic is the “artiste manqué,” the artist who cannot transmute his conflicts into art."

"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, .. is the condition of the normal man. "

"At the outset the essential element of all morality is, in Nietzsche's view, simply this, that it is a prolonged constraint."

"What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."

"For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man ?"

"Must philosophy therefore retire from this field, disappointed in its hopes ?"

"Man portrays himself in his deeds, and what a form it is that is depicted in the drama of the present day !"

"As a school-boy he was quiet and retiring, reading a great deal, but not paying much attention to his lessons."

"The love of Nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss."

"A contemplative habit of mind has advantages ranging from the most trivial to the most profound."

“Behold then in this little play A world-wide truth set free ! Easily may a symbol teach What thy reason cannot reach.”

"Shakespeare's knowledge of mankind has become proverbial: he has justly been called the master of the human mind."

"In the list as above set down, will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare’s life, lean and meagre as the invoice is."