Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.