[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.