Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts.
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Motives are causes experienced from within.