The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.