True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.