Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

To act is easy; to think is hard.