I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.