you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.