Violence does even justice unjustly.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.