There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself