It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Is there life before death?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.