Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.