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

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.