Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.