Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots! - Arthur Schopenhauer

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness. … In former times the English plays used to finish with a petition for the King. The old Indian dramas close with these words: "May all living beings be delivered from pain." Tastes differ; but in my opinion there is no more beautiful prayer than this.

The first rule, then, for a good style is that the author should have something to say; nay, this is in itself almost all that is necessary.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.