Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.