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.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

His saying was: live and let live.