Hongzhi

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.