Up To A Certain Point Every Man

The Man Whose Nature Is Such That By One Path Alone His Chief Desire Will Reach Consummation Will Try To Find It On That Path, Whatever It May Be, And Whatever The World Thinks Of It; And If He Does Not, He Is Contemptible.

The Propriety Of Some Persons Seems To Consist In Having Improper Thoughts About Their Neighbors.

The Force Of The Blow Depends On The Resistance. It Is Sometimes Better Not To Struggle Against Temptation. Either Fly Or Yield At Once.

The Self Has Turned Out To Mean So Many Things, To Mean Them So Ambiguously, And To Be So Wavering In Its Application, That We Do Not Feel Encouraged.

The Hunter For Aphorisms On Human Nature Has To Fish In Muddy Water, And He Is Even Condemned To Find Much Of His Own Mind.