You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.