The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

I never felt part of the Christian industry.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.