Reality is a sliding door.
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
Every wall is a door.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.
In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
