Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.