Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.