When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.