There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.