A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.