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How great is the power of truth! Of its own power it can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity of cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in the sandy desert.
Every step so downward, is a step upward. The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befall him must be from himself… The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint man with himself. He is not to live to the future as described to him, but to live in the real future by living to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to Godliness.
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
One doth not know how much an ill word may empoison liking.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
The precept, “Know yourself” was not solely intended to abolish the pride of men, but also that we might understand our own value.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
That life is better life, past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear.
Put not yourself into amazement how these things should be: all difficulties are but easy when they are known.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
O’ it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused.
Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth. It carries a superiority to all the accidents of life. It compels right relation to every other man — domesticates itself with strangers and enemies.
Man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested. There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications… This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality, so subtle, so quiet, yet so tenacious, that although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.
