The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

No man can have society upon his own terms.