Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.