In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.