The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

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

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.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

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

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.