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.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.