Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.