No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.