This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

You cannot make men good by law.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.