The true wealth of a nation lies not in it’s gold or silver but in it’s learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Love provided me with a tongue and tears.
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.
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
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.