“Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it”

“Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”