Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

His saying was: live and let live.