There is even the dignity of vice.
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.