simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.