Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.