The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.