The Reward Of Renunciation Is Some Good

Bacon's Not The Only Thing That's Cured By Hanging From A String.

Society Is Based On The Assumption That Everyone Is Alike And No One Is Alive.

Hamlet Is Every Man's Self-love With All Its Dreams Realized. He Wears All The Crowns And Carries Every Cross.

Most Of The Avoidable Suffering In Life Springs From Our Attempts To Escape The Unavoidable Suffering Inherent In The Fragmentary Nature Of Our Present Existence. We Expect Immortal Satisfactions From Mortal Conditions, And Lasting And Perfect Happiness In The Midst Of Universal Change. To Encourage This Expectation, To Persuade Mankind That The Ideal Is Realizable In This World, After A Few Preliminary Changes In External Conditions, Is The Distinguishing Mark Of All Charlatans, Whether In Thought Or Action.

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.