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.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Everything transitory is but an image.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.