More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?