Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.