I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.