Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado, they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

God sends cold according to Cloathes.

Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve-- Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.

What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart -Chandogya Upanishad.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

I once saw this sign on a diner wall: "I have an agreement with the bank: they don't fry hamburgers, and I don't cash checks.".

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Stolen sweets are best.