Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.