I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.