When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

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