Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.