A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.