Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.