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

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.