My experience. . . convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall. . . everything.
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
It's hard to watch people change, but it's even harder to remember who they used to be.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.