The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?