Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance mi….

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad..

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man….

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity..

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized..

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith..

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior ….

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit..

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was sti….

Only he who is without anything is without enemies..

Truth is so often disconcerting..

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion..

But they were fated to misunderstand each other..

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish..

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fict….

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and w….

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous..

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems..

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9..

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do..