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

Individuality is founded in feeling

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.