It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.