We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.