Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.