If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.