That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.