He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own 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.