"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century."

"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."

"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

"Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. ( Life isn't given to anyone, but just given on loan to everyone"

"HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises."

"You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others."