Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

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.