Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.

Never shake hands with a scorpion.

Courage isn’t instinctive or genetic

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

People have come, surpassed my soul and left.I have become hollow and the hollow space inside, hurts.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.