Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Thinking evil is making evil.