We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion,…

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to follow any idea, wise or mad that ma…

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

And then he thought: is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding …