Endurance is patience concentrated.

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.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.