One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.