The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.