I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.