Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.