Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

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

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.