One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.