The whole past is the procession of the present.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

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

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.