He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Life is a series of surprises.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.