Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.