Human experience renders it daily more clear that the highest thought we can attain will long be inferior still to the mysterious truth we seek. - Maurice Maeterlinck

Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all who are sad, to expose our heart to the passer-by for him to caress or stab? Tears and suffering and wounds are helpful to us only when they do not discourage our life.

Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.