By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted