Khalil Gibran

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Friends are thieves of time.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The eye is easily frightened.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.