“A monk's first concern, night and day, should be not to hurt or trouble his brother monks.”

“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”

“The supreme aristocrat is not the feudal lord in his castle but the contemplative monk in his cell.”

“Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band. ]
Monk: "Why did we stop?"
Technician: "I thought you were rehearsing."
Monk: "Aren't we always?"”

“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”

“Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.”

“I felt like poisoning a monk.”

“122. Happy is the monk who views the welfare and progress of all men with as much joy as if it were his own.”

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk”

“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”