To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.