Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.