The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

The perfection of rottenness.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.