Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.