“Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”

“Because without order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection.”

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”

“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”

“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”

“For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.”
Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”

“As on a lake limpid like a mirror blooms a beautiful lotus and spreads it's fragrance around, so does this Lotus of the East rise in the midst of our people. This news is undoubtedly of great joy to us. Who can tell of what use it will be, where the fragrance of the Lotus will reach, if we do what is in our power to do! Man cannot live without companionship and no companionship can flourish without language.”

“At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”