My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.