The future influences the present just as much as the past.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.