Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.