Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.