Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

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.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.