Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.