The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.