“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”

“The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.”