Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.