Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.