When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

We live in the world when we love it.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.