I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.