The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

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.

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

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

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