“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.