When either your joy or your sorrow becomes great the world becomes small.
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
The bitterest thing in our today’s sorrow is the memory of our yesterday’s joy.
They say to me,“You must choose between the pleasures of this world and the peace of the next world.”
And I say to them, “I have chosen both the delights of this world and the peace of the next.
For I know in my heart that the Supreme Poet wrote but one poem,
and it scans perfectly, and it also rhymes perfectly.”
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
When you reach your height you shall desire but only for desire; and you shall hunger, for hunger; and you shall thirst for greater thirst.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. The flowers of spring are winter’s dreams related at the breakfast table of the angels.
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, “See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep.”
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, “Oh,most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!”
Turtles can tell more about roads than hares.
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
The most talkative is the least intelligent, and there is hardly a difference between an orator and an auctioneer.
Be grateful that you do not have to live down the renown of a father nor the wealth of an uncle.