Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.