Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.