“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”

“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”

“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”

“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”

“A man should carry nature in his head.”

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain”

“Better be with the dead,Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy.”

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“So loving to my mother,That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,Visit her face' too roughly.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

“Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.”

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

“Love's heralds should be thoughts,Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beamsDriving back shadows over low'ring hills.Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.”