"Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions...." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.”

“The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.”

“The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.”

“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”

“For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.”

“There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.”

“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”