We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.