Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.