Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the mere… - Maurice Maeterlinck

And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admiration and pity for a small foreign nation that was being unjustly martyred. We cannot repeat it too often: here, as in the case of the sacrifice which Belgium and England offered to the ideal of honour, is a new and unprecedented fact in history

We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. Herein is no egoism, or pride. To become effectually generous and sincerely humble there must be within us a confident, tranquil, and clear comprehension of all that we owe to ourselves.

آدم تنها اگر در بهشت هم باشد به او خوش نمي گذرد. اما كسي كه به كتاب يا تحقيق علاقه مند است، هنگامي كه به مطالعه يا انديشه درباره محتواي آن كتاب مشغول است، جهنم تنهايي براي او بهترين بهشت هاست