He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
He conquers who endures.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.