It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.