Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.