emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

Real worship involves waiting.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.