I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Praise thyself never.