That which is false troubles the heart, 

but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

Truth will rise above falsehood 

as oil above water.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Silence is so accurate.

Act the way you'd like to be 

and soon you'll be the way you act.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

We are sometimes 

as different from ourselves 

as we are from others.

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; 

all tradition is the crystallisation of experiment.

I'd rather spend my leisure time
doing what some people call my work 

and I call my fun.

One of the first conditions of happiness is 

that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

The prerequisite of originality 

is the art of forgetting, 

at the proper moment, 

what we know.

To me, 

being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; 

it means taking pleasure in them.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, 

for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts 

and establishing understanding between people.