We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

The bite of conscience is indecent.