I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.