(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

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

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.