To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

And for the first time in my life, the following afternoon, I went into the west.

I can't say that the world is not that it is not - because it is just from mind.

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.