There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.