I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

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.

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.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."