Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.