Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.
Slowly. . . the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.