Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

I think, therefore I doubt.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.