To Be A Man Is To Be

A Man Should Learn To Detect And Watch That Gleam Of Light Which Flashes Across His Mind From Within, More Than The Lustre Of The Firmament Of Bards And Sages. Yet He Dismisses Without Notice His Thought, Because It Is His. In Every Work Of Genius We Recognize Our Own Rejected Thoughts: They Come Back To Us With A Certain Alienated Majesty.

Silence Is A Solvent That Destroys Personality, And Gives Us Leave To Be Great And Universal.

Tobacco And Opium Have Broad Backs, And Will Cheerfully Carry The Load Of Armies, If You Choose To Make Them Pay High For Such Joy As They Give And Such Harm As They Do.

Power Dwells With Cheerfulness.

I Pay The Schoolmaster, But 'tis The Schoolboys That Educate My Son.