Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

I am dying Egypt dying.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

Doing nothing, badly.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

I'm always thinking 'how can I continue to grow?'

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.