As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his selfmade law.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own.