How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?