A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish read more

The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every read more

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are read more

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.