It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

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.