There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

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.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?