“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

“The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.”

“While the dull talk idly streams,
He sits upon the bank and dreams,
Till some careless word that's said
Finds a fellow in his head…”

“An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim — that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.”

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese proverb”

“The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.”

“in the whole world, that day, there was not a more entirely unimportant-looking pair of people than this Miner and his Wife. And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison? There was born here, once more, a Mighty Man; whose light was to flame as the beacon over long centuries and epochs of the world; the whole world and its history was waiting for this man. It is strange, it is great.”

“To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.”

“The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.”