Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

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

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.