We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

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

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.