We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

Time itself comes in drops.

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it