Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.