When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin