I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.