A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.