In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.