Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

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.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.