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

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Depression is rage spread thin.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.