The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.