Occupation: Author Birth: 1822 Death: 1905
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion..
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimu….
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities..
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any..
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire..
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!.
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire..
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor..
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity..
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling..
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one..
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer..
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release..
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason..
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis..
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad..
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason..
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others..
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance..
Every man is his own greatest dupe..
Keep your working power at its maximum..