"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

"The ends must justify the means."

"I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it."

"To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature."

"How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise?"

"Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman-all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!"

"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."