The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.