Many People, Especially Women, Never Experience Boredom

The Great End Of Art Is To Strike The Imagination With The Power Of A Soul That Refuses To Admit Defeat Even In The Midst Of A Collapsing World.

People Who, Out Of An Inborn Moderation, Leave Every Glass Standing Only Half-emptied Refuse To Admit That Everything In The World Has Its Sediments And Dregs.

Faced With A World Of "modern Ideas" Which Would Like To Banish Everyone Into A Corner And A "specialty," A Philosopher, If There Could Be A Philosopher These Days, Would Be Compelled To Establish The Greatness Of Mankind, The Idea Of "greatness," On The Basis Of His Own Particular Extensive Range And Multiplicity, His Own Totality In The Midst Of Diversity.

Brave People May Be Persuaded To An Action By Representing It As Being More Dangerous Than It Really Is.

Examine The Life Of The Best And Most Productive Men And Nations, And Ask Yourselves Whether A Tree Which Is To Grow Proudly Skywards Can Dispense With Bad Weather And Storms. Whether Misfortune And Opposition, Or Every Kind Of Hatred, Jealousy, Stubbornness, Distrust, Severity, Greed, And Violence Do Not Belong To The Favourable Conditions Without Which A Great Growth Even Of Virtue Is Hardly Possible?