A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.