The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.