There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.