Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Well begun is half done.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Cluttering harms human memory.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. 

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive position but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.