We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.