People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.