There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
Learning is better worth than houses or land.
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.
The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.
Self-command is the main elegance.
You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams. ' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!