When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

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."

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.