The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.