Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.