God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

The mathematics of high achievement

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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.