Tao te Ching

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Nature hates calculators.

All colors will agree in the dark.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.