The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?