Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.