The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

Another occupation might have been better.