Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
From Walter Savage Landor
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Delay in justice is injustice.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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