Ramayana

"अत्येति रजनी या तु सा न प्रतिनिवर्तते"

"The night that has passed, does not return."

"The one who speaks truth obtains the highest position in this world."

"Like unto trees whose roots have been reduced, cruel persons, execrated of men, who perpetrate iniquitous acts, do not exist long."

"We should not indulge in grief. Grief is injurious.— Grief destroys a person even as a wrathful serpent doth a boy."

"The general spirit of India was most vividly reflected in the Ramayana."

"References to the story of Rama occur in the earliest part of the Sangama literature of Tamil Nadu, dating back to a period almost as old as the Ramayana of Valmiki."

"Well, what is the Ramayana? The conquest of the savage aborigines of Southern India by the Aryans! Indeed! Ramachandra is a civilised Aryan king and with whom, is he fighting? With King Ravana of Lanka. Just read the Ramayana, and you will find that Ravana was rather more and not less civilised than Ramachandra. The civilisation of Lanka was rather higher, and surely not lower, than that of Ayodhya."

"By Indra! how beautiful this is and how much better than the Bible, the Gospel and all the words of the Fathers of the Church!"

"O, blessed lady! O gracious one! A doer reaps surely the fruit of his own deeds corresponding to the nature of work either good or bad, of that which he does!"

"मा निषाद प्रतिष्ठां त्वमगमश्शाश्वतीस्समा: । यत्क्रौञ्चमिथुनादेकमवधी: काममोहितम् ।।"

"People fear of a person, who speaks untruth, as one fears a snake."