Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.