The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.