We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Successful villany is called virtue.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-