It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.