Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.