... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.