“It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.”

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.

Humor is wit and love.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

I am not a duplicate multiple soul, rather a unique rare blooming nurturer, so never compare me with other precious souls.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Less rushing, more lingering. Less distraction, more noticing. Less comparison, more gratitude.

Don’t compare your kids. Every seed has its own variety and fragrance. 

If we are not comparing happiness then we should also not compare pain.

Comparison is a distraction from our inner creativity.⁣

Never compare yourself to anyone, everyone’s life is different, difficulties are different, the path is different.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.