"Truth does less good in the world..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.”

“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”

“One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”

“[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.”

“The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.”

“What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out”

“Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would haveestablished my identity.”

“Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.”

“That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.”