The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?