Only the soul that loves is happy

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.