Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

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

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

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.