It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.