Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.