Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.