Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.