The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings..

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command..

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms..

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situatio….

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite..

Almost everything comes from almost nothing..

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring ….

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library..

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on….

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the ….

Love is faith and one faith leads to another..

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowe….

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small..

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health..

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers..

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him..

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men….

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious..

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering..

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement..