There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.