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.

The actual well seen is ideal.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.