A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.