Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Love is the only future God offers.
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.