No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

What is power without control?

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.