These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.