Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

No violent extreme endures.