It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.