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

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.