The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.