average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

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.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.