Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.