While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air