Emotions and Feelings

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.

A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Humor is hope’s companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things, I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Humor is hope’s companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things, I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humor, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Humor is but another weapon against the universe.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Be winged arrows, aiming at fulfillment and goal, even though you will tire without having reached the mark.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within.

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within.

To be a hero, one must give an order to oneself.