Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.