Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Life alone can rekindle life.

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.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.