The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
As one’s gifts increase, his friends decrease.
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, ‘Who are you?’
Love one another, but make not a bond of love...
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.