Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Hereditary right should be kept sacred; not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.