Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.