“Those who touch the sceptres of princes deserve no pity.”

“Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?”

“E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.”

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

“Those who have found this middle point are true and wonderworking adepts of science and reason. They are masters of the wealth of worlds, confidants and friends of the princes of heaven itself, and Nature obeys them because they will what is willed by the law which is the motive power of Nature. It is this which the Saviour of the world spoke of as the Kingdom of Heaven; this also is the Sanctum Regnum of the Holy Kabalah. It is the Crown and Ring of Solomon ; it is the Sceptre of Joseph which the stars obeyed in heaven and the harvests on earth.”

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.”

“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”

“To hear a prince's secrets is not a privilege but a burden. Many smash the mirror that reminds them of their ugliness. They cannot stand to see those who saw them.”