Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.