A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.

The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era read more

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or read more

When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.