There nearly always is a method in madness.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

There are no new ideas about female education.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.