Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

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

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

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.