Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Time itself is an element.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.