Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and bears a laden breast
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of rest."

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more."

"My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure."