And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

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

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.