It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.