The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.
Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.
Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men’s opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
All science is transcendental or else passes away.
The primary wisdom is intuition.
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
Don’t choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
History – a biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
A system-grinder hates the truth.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power.
Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.