The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.