Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not sent to divide people.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.