Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

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

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

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

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

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