Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.