Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.