You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

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

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.