A little praise goes a great ways.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.