The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Religion is caught, not taught.