Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.