Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.