Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.