Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.