Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

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.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.