If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.