Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Only those who dream with a sense of urgency get to wake up from their dreams.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.