There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.