Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

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

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.

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

Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

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

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.