Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.