It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.