When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.