The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; oftentimes it grows turbid.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
For a young person it is almost a sin – and certainly a danger – to be too much occupied with himself; but for the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?
