Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.