The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

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

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!