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

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.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.