The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.