Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes