All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.