Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.