Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.