If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The eye is easily frightened.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.