Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.