It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
What you don’t know can be your greatest asset.