Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.