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

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

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

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.