Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.