O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Change alone is unchanging.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.