The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?