Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

There is no advance without strife.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.