Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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

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.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.