When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.