Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them to sunshine and light.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.