...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.