Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Patience is the mother of will.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.