A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

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

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

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.