“Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenaciou...”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.”

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping”

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”

“Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.”

“Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“Love and a red rose can't be hid.”

“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”