Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.

Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.

The fruit of silence is tranquillity.

who died and made you boss?

Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy... Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace...

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far Was pinned with a single star.

My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

Laws die, Books never.

In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers-- "Where?"

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter, To make thyself learneder, wiser, better.

I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need, A drowsy balm for every bitter smart. For happy hours the Rose will idly blow-- The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.