The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.