Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.