We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.