A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.