I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.