Every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another man’s wellbeing.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
Women are like that they don’t acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilising the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
It is hard believing to think that a love or a sorrow is a bond purchased without design and which matures willynilly and is recalled without warning to be replaced by whatever issue the gods happen to be floating at the time.
Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don’t square.
