In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.