The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.