Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.