With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
Time and pains will do anything.
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.