All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.