The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.