Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive..

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues..

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross..

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our prese….

Friends are God's apology for relations..

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but becau….

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string..

There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of un….

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure..

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer..

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown.….

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do ….

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedie….

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived..

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development..

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy..