A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.