All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

Every burned book enlightens the world.