All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.