We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.