“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Every harlot was a virgin once

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.