“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg”

“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“Active evil is better than passive good”

“Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so”

“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”