The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.