Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
Follow only beauty and obey only love.
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The envier praises me unknowingly.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
I learnt silence from the talkative.
Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.