The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

He who owns little is little owned.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.