A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.