It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
No violent extreme endures.
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
My books are friends that never fail me.
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
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