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.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.