People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

The Savior of the whole world chose twelve disciples, and even one of that small number, selected by superhuman wisdom, turned out a traitor and a devil.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.