There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.