No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.