The property of power is to protect.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.