I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.