When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.