In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .