It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.