By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.