Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
