When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.