Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.