Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.