Life in us is like the water in a river.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.