Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.