If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny