Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire..

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason..

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others..

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities..

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis..

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..

Every man is his own greatest dupe..

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad..

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling..

The most terrible of all things is terror..

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand..

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into ….

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny..

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance..

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason..

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity..

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release..

Keep your working power at its maximum..

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor..

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire..