A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.