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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.  
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.  
Human improvement is from within outward.  
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive dut...  
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet...  
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws ...  
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion ...  
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with ...  
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had r...  
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.  
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.  
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympa...  
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.  
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they r...  
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.  
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.  
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the tor...  
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge ...