I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.