Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.