I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his …

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

:we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.