Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.