I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.