The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Endurance is the crowning quality.
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.
History is clarified experience.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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