Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Monastic incarceration is castration.