Song is the heroics of speech.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.