True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.