Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.