If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

Wisdom is only found in truth.