Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.