Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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