You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.