I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks