“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.”

“The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.”

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.”

“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”

“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”