I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.