A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!