Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.

Youth wastes away, but immaturity can last a lifetime.

If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles in the backside, you wouldn't be able to sit down for two weeks.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion The ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhad not proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmthe Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedthe Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.