Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.