What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.