What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.