The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Love of action is not industry.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.