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 reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.