If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.