Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

The universe is a thought of God.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.