Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security, " I said. "It sucks.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

Translation is at best an echo.

Gold is Money. That's it

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.