The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.