Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.