“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.”