Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.