I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.