Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.