No one can transcend their own individuality.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.