People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.