The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be deceived by the days and the nights.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'