True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.