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

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.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

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.

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.