People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.