If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.