Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

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

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

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.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

It is your friends who make your world.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.