The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.