In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.