Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
