But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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

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

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

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

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.