No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.
Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.
While in a vintage restaurant. . . "the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.