Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.