Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.