There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

True humility is contentment.