Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.