Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

What you call intellectual honesty I call self-deception

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

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