What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

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

In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.