He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.