It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.