The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.