We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

I learnt silence from the talkative

Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.