Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Time has only a relative existence.
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.