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

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

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.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.