In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

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.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.