Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.