Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.