The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.