A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Man is a tool-using animal.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.