Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

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.

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.