If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.