There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.