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.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

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.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?