Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Life is a constant process of dying.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

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.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.