“The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.”

“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

“But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.”

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”

“It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.”

“Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.”

“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”