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- Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
- Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
- If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.