Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.