I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Create Your Own Miracles, don't wait for Miracles to happen.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.