But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.