To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Character is our destiny.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.