A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.