One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

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

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

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.