The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.