Habit is the deepest law of human nature

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.