The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.