A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
Society is founded upon Cloth;.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.