What we do not understand we have no right to judge

The unfinished is nothing.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.