Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Be not a slave of words.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is...
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.