Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

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

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.