No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

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

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

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.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.