The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Habit is stronger than reason.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.