once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.