The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
From George Santayana
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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