Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

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.