I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.