All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

We must get over wanting to be needed.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.