Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.