Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.