Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.