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

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.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.