In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.