It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer’s self conceit.
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.