Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

If you are without an enemy in the world, you may be a lamb or an ass, but you are not a man.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Our sins are like a carousel where the same decorated dogs, pigs, and goats, ridden by the foolish, come around again and again until the machine wears out.

A translation of a poem is like a plastercast of a statue.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

A critic is an old maid that writes instructions to you concerning the rearing of your own children.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.