Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Faith is continuation of reason.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.