“Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.”

“He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

“A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.”

“Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.”

“Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.”

“It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.”

“I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many ...”

“I do feel that Ive managed to make something I could maybe call my worldover timelittle by little. And when Im inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to ...”

“The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat in...”