The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.