Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.