If you are going through hell, keep going.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.