For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.