Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

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

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.