“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”

“If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.”

“Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.”

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.”

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”

“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”