Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.