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

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.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

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.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

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