It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.