We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.