It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

The best way to solve a problem is to prevent it.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

Undying love, attention and sacrifice is an essential fuel for relations

Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Retirement: Twice as much husband half as much pay.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.