Affectation is the product of falsehood.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

All true work is sacred.