Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.