The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

Remember, it’s the pace that kills, never the distance.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.