Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.