Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.