A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Skepticism is slow suicide.