If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.