Great Throughts Treasury

"The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. "

"There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. "

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. "

"Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. "

"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

"We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. "

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. "

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. "

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "

"Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. "