Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.