Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.