With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.