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

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith