Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.