Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

True wit never made us laugh.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.