I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.