The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.