The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend