How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.