Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.