If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.