Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.