Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
New arts destroy the old.
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.