The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.