All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Earth endures; Stars abide.
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.