"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."

"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."

"Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?"

"Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought."

"Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore."

"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."

"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

"Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room."

"Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others."

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."