We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Our life is woven wind.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!