There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it. ]
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing. . . a grateful heart!
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.