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

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 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.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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

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.

Another occupation might have been better.