universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.