Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

To have and to want more that is life.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.