Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
Money often costs too much.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.