The Public Mind [is] A Cloudy Region

The Reward Of Renunciation Is Some Good Greater Than The Thing Renounced. To Renounce With No Vision Of Such A Good, From Fear Or In Automatic Obedience To A Formula, Is To Weaken The Springs Of Life, And To Diminish The Soul's Resistance To This World.

The Public Mind [is] A Cloudy Region Where Only The Simplest Shapes Are Discerned With Any Accuracy.

Hamlet Is Egotism As It Appears To Itself, And Don Quixote Is Egotism As It Appears To The Detached Observer.

It Is Difficult To Love Mankind Unless One Has A Reasonable Private Income, And When One Has A Reasonable Private Income One Has Better Things To Do Than Loving Mankind.

Ideas Get Substance And Value Not By Being Discussed But By Being Lived.