Logic is like the sword
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change thing I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.
However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
