He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.