Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.