Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

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

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.