People protect what they love.

For want of discernment the most precious jewels lie in the dust at the feet of men while bits of glass are worn on their heads. But we should not imagine that the gems have sunk in value and the bits of glass have risen in importance. When a person of critical judgement shall appear each will be given its right position.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

There is no such thing as accident, it is fate misnamed.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I am not a crook.

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