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

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

Polite beggary is too common.

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

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

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

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.