What labels me, negates me.

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.