The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.