All Quotes

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. ”

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message. ”

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. ”

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ”

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ”

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ”

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ”

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ”

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. ”

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ”