A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.