The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!