There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.