Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.