Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.
Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secrets.