Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves us and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Quotes
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
In as complicated a machine as this world is, it seems to me that, all our little contributory efforts notwithstanding, we are in all essentials always participating in a lottery.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favours only the prepare mind.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
One should keep for oneself a little back shop, quite unadulterated, in which one can establish one’s true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude
Only silence is great; all else is weakness
True silence is the rest of the mind; and it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment
Silence itself is eloquent.