We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird