Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.