What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.