The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

No decision is, in itself, a decision.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.