What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.