Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
All great peoples are conservative.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.