I love a life whose plot is simple.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

At least let us have healthy books.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.