The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

The God knows when to smile.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.