We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy