The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?