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

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.