One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.