“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .”

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

To philosophize means to make vivid.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

Humanity is a comic role.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.