No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.