We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

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

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

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

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.