Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

One must care about a world one will not see.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.