The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.