Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!

Focusing on negative matters always leaves one's positive inner-self unattended.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

It is a lie that America is racist

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.