The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism.

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

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.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.