Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.