All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.