The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.