A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
Thought will not work except in silence.
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.