Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.