Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.