Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.