People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

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.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.