We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.