Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

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.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.