“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

“Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter. Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery, Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men; Tears with which I join the broken-hearted, Laugher that symbolizes joy over my very existence.”

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

“If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.”

“Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.”

“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?”

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.”

“O constancy, be strong upon my side,Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.”

“Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.”

“But earthlier happy is the rose distill'dThan that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”

“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”

“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”

“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”

“Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.”