Friends Are God's Apology For

Writers Are Idolized Not Because They Love Their Fellow Men, Which Is Never A Recommendation And In Extreme Instances Leads To Crucifixion, But Because Their Self-love Is In Tune With Current Fears And Desires, And In Giving It Expression They Are Speaking For An Inarticulate Multitude.

A Charlatan Makes Obscure What Is Clear; A Thinker Makes Clear What Is Obscure.

Ideas Get Substance And Value Not By Being Discussed But By Being Lived.

The Reward Of Renunciation Is Some Good Greater Than The Thing Renounced. To Renounce With No Vision Of Such A Good, From Fear Or In Automatic Obedience To A Formula, Is To Weaken The Springs Of Life, And To Diminish The Soul's Resistance To This World.

The Public Mind [is] A Cloudy Region Where Only The Simplest Shapes Are Discerned With Any Accuracy.