Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.