Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?