Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
But I have seen thee And thou art enough.
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.