Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.