“In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunger even in the most degraded of lives. For indeed nothing of beauty can pass by and be altogether unperceived. Perhaps does it never pass by save only in our unconsciousness, but its action is no less puissant in gloom of night than by light of day; the joy it procures may be less tangible, but other difference there is none.”

“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.”

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”

“It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.”

“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”

“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”

“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”

“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?”

“To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.”

“You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.”