We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?
But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.
By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’