You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.