No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Men’s hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic’s can but babble on the surface.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.