Sandalwood, tagara,
lotus, & jasmine:
Among these scents,
The scent of virtue
Is unsurpassed.

Next to nothing, this fragrance
–sandalwood, tagara—
while the scent of the virtuous
wafts to the gods, supreme.
-Dhammapada [4]

One should not strike a brahmin,
nor should the brahmin let loose with his anger.
Shame on the brahmin’s killer.
More shame on the brahmin.
whose anger’s let loose.
-Dhammapada [389]

Nothing’s better for the brahmin
than when the mind is held back
from what is endearing and not.
However his harmful-heartedness wears away,
that’s how stress
simply comes to rest.
-Dhammapada [390]

Having slain anger, one sleeps soundly;
Having slain anger, one does not sorrow;
The killing of anger,
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing the noble ones praise,
For having slain that, one does not sorrow.
-Buddha

In one who has gone the full distance,
is free from sorrow,
is fully released
in all respects,
has abandoned all bonds:
no fever is found.
-Dhammapada [90]

Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of loving-kindness. Loving-kindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth.

Just as the stars have not a sixteenth part of the moon’s brilliance, which absorbs them all in its shining light, so loving-kindness absorbs all the other ways with its lustrous splendour.

Just as when the rainy season ends and the sun rises up into the clear and cloudless sky, banishing all the dark in its radiant light, and just as at the end of a black night the morning star shines out in glory, so none of the ways you can use to further your spiritual progress has a sixteenth part of the value of loving-kindness. For it absorbs them all, its luminosity shining forth.
-Itivuttaka Sutta

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
-Ajahn Chah, “Still Forest Pool”

If there were no freedom, beings could never disentangle themselves from the world. But since there is freedom to transcend the world, beings are able to become disentangled.
-Anguttara Nikaya

A man long absent
comes home safe from afar.
His kin, his friends, his companions,
delight in his return.

In just the same way,
when you’ve done good
& gone from this world
to the world beyond,
your good deeds receive you;
as kin, someone dear
come home.
-Dhammapada [16]

Abandoning malicious speech, he abstains from malicious speech; he does not repeat elsewhere what he has heard here in order to divide (those people) from these, nor does he repeat to these people what he has heard elsewhere in order to divide (these people) from those; thus he is one who reunites those who are divided, a promoter of friendships, who enjoys concord, rejoices in concord, delights in concord, a speaker of words that promote concord.
-Majjhima Nikaya