We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.