A Man In Earnest Finds Means Or,

[peace] Is The Highest And Most Strenuous Act Of The Soul, But An Entirely Harmonious Act, In Which All Our Powers And Affections Are Blending In A Beautiful Proportion, And Sustain And Perfect One Another. It Is More Than The Silence After Storms. It Is As The Concord Of All Melodious Sounds ... An Alliance Of Love With All Beings, A Sympathy With All That Is Pure And Happy, A Surrender Of Every Separate Will And Interest, A Participation Of The Spirit And Life Of The Universe.... This Is Peace, And The True Happiness Of [humanity].

Reading Is The Royal Road To Intellectual Eminence...truly Good Books Are More Than Mines To Those Who Can Understand Them. They Are The Breathings Of The Great Souls Of Past Times. Genius Is Not Embalmed In Them, But Lives In Them Perpetually.

I Am A Living Member Of The Great Family Of All Souls.

One Good Anecdote Is Worth A Volume Of Biography.

It Feeds And Grows On The Blood Which It Sheds. The Passions , From Which It Springs, Gain Strength And Fury From Indulgence.